We’re combining project and department manager access into a single Manager role—with personalized permissions that provide clarity around who manages what within your team. Additionally, people managers can now approve time off requests for team members who report directly to them.

Check out the quick walkthrough below for more on the new Manager access and time off approval workflow.

This update will be applied to all accounts the week of December 5, 2022. Or you can make the switch now and join 1,000+ teams who have already turned on the new permissions! An Admin or Account Owner can click Get Started in your Team settings in Float.

Unexpected changes to scheduled and logged time can be time consuming and costly. To combat this, we’ve introduced tentative time off that doesn’t impact any of your planned work until it is confirmed on the Schedule.

Teams using Time Tracking can now lock logged time as well, ensuring greater reporting and invoicing accuracy.

We’re streamlining manager access rights into a single role with flexible permissions for more clarity and precision around what is managed.

Managing projects or departments isn’t always clear-cut. Combining these access rights with customizable permissions will let you cherry-pick access rights based on the hierarchy and structure of your organization. For example, if Joanna manages Fred, and Fred manages two people, their access rights can be individually tailored to suit their needs.

How does it affect your team?

• Select individual people you manage without needing to manage a whole department
• Project managers will no longer be able to schedule time off for everyone—only those they manage
• Allow managers to edit both people and projects
• Hide or show sensitive details like budgets, billable rates, and reports to individual managers

We’ll be sharing more details soon! If you have any questions in the meantime, reach out to us at support@float.com.

Since releasing our new Schedule interface late last year, we've been listening closely to what's working and, more importantly, what's not working for you and your team.

Thanks to your input, we've made some exciting design updates:

• New drop-down options to manage your team's scheduled tasks, projects, and logged time in fewer clicks
• A simplified date range selector with preset options to see your team's scheduled and logged hours more easily
• A dedicated tab on the sidebar for teams using time tracking to review and submit their logged hours faster